The Dental Poem
Huggins’ Dream of the Future of Dentistry
By: Dr. Hal Huggins
The poem was posted alongside
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech
“I Have A Dream.”
Dr. Hal Huggins writes …
“A few weeks ago, our preacher gave a sermon on Martin Luther King’s famous
“I Have a Dream” speech.
I thought,
“This is not a sermon but humanitarianism.
That still, small voice with a megaphone said, “Get his notes and convert this talk into poetry!” - I did.
Then I thought,
Give me a moment and it will be seen That King and I share a dream.”
Hal Huggins’ Dream of the Future of Dentistry
“In eighteen hundred thirty two
Paris introduced something new
Amalgam was the way to fill the teeth
easy, quick what a relief
Sleepy water and nitrous oxide
gave numbness a brand new guide
Painless Parker made use of this
going to the dentist was now near bliss
No one thought of mercury disease
filling teeth was now a breeze
Then Stock and Frickholm and Olympio
found that mercury crept out slow
Which upset no end the ADA
still the dentist must obey
The dose so small it can’t be bad
but don’t dare make the leaders mad
Those abscessed teeth too sick to save
through root canals we provide a grave
They may be brittle and seem quite dead
but leave them in the mouth instead
Though home for many bacterium
to surgery they don’t have to succumb
I dream that dentistry will finally discover
hundreds of microbes living under cover
Heart disease and even cancer
are not a normal healthy answer
Just to fill a single space
where bridges and partials could take their place
Reflecting back to Mayo’s and Price
is it really worth the sacrifice
They showed with lots of implanted rabbits this is not a real good habit
Root canals have no MHC
so they become your enemy
I dream we’ll use our DNA
to chase the anaerobes away
They also provide a hiding place
for Lyme’s Borrelia to embrace
Lyme does its damage, then hides away
in root canals, they love to play”
Poem read version:
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Poem video version:
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“Dr. Josef Issels M.D. was a famous German cancer doctor. For 40 years, from 1947 until his retirement in 1987, Dr. Issels treated thousands of cancer patients. Dr. Issels said that in his 40 years of treating cancer patients, 97% of them had root canal-filled teeth. Dr. Issels insisted that they get these teeth removed before he began their cancer treatment.
Cancer is a very dangerous place to play, because you get that little red spot on your forehead just before everything goes black when they pull the trigger. It’s one of the biggest industries in the United States. So if you mess with them, there’s a price to pay” - Dr. Hal Huggins/ one of the fathers of the whole body biological dentistry.
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The golden nugget of the hidden root cause of dental decay is the outward (no dental decay) or inward (dental decay) dentinal fluid flow.
What drives it?
https://t.co/08X3LnUaEa
🦷 THE MYSTERY OF TOOTH DECAY: CAN YOUR DIET REALLY HELP REPAIR YOUR TEETH?
For decades, we have been taught a simple story about tooth decay: a tooth develops a cavity, the dentist drills it, fills it, and the problem is solved. But there is a fascinating part of dental science that is often overlooked. Your teeth are not completely lifeless structures. They are constantly losing and gaining minerals—and what you eat can influence that battle.
Nearly 100 years ago, British researcher May Mellanby was already investigating how nutrition affected the development and strength of teeth. Her research, including studies involving children, helped reveal that nutrition could influence how resistant teeth were to decay. At the time, this was a remarkable idea. Today, modern dentistry understands something even more clearly: tooth enamel is involved in a continuous process of mineral loss and repair.
Every time you eat sugar or other fermentable carbohydrates, bacteria in your mouth can use them as fuel and produce acids. Those acids can pull minerals such as calcium and phosphate out of the enamel. But the process does not necessarily end there. Saliva, fluoride and minerals in the mouth can help replace some of what was lost and strengthen weakened areas.
And this is where the story gets interesting.
The earliest stages of tooth decay may not always mean that a permanent hole has formed. Before the enamel collapses, an early lesion can sometimes be stopped from progressing and may even regain minerals through a process called remineralization.
That is why dental care is not simply about drilling every suspicious spot. Modern dentistry can use fluoride, dietary changes, better plaque control, sealants and other preventive treatments to help control early decay when appropriate.
But there is a crucial catch.
Diet cannot magically rebuild a tooth after a large cavity has physically destroyed the enamel. Once a significant hole has formed, the lost tooth structure does not simply grow back because someone changes their diet. Depending on the damage, a dentist may need to restore the tooth.
So what did May Mellanby discover almost a century ago?
Not that cavities can simply be “healed” by eating the right foods. Rather, her work helped point toward a much more interesting reality: tooth decay is a biological process, and its direction can be influenced by nutrition and the environment inside your mouth.
Your teeth are constantly caught in a microscopic battle between mineral loss and mineral repair.
Sources: British Medical Journal; Nature; American Dental Association.
@ShiningScience The golden nugget of the hidden root cause of dental decay is the outward (no dental decay) or inward (dental decay) dentinal fluid flow.
What drives it?
https://t.co/08X3LnTCOC
The Root Cause of Dental Decay🧵
The Giants of Oral & Whole Body Health/ Dr. Weston A. Price/ Dr. Melvin E. Page/ Dr. Ralph R. Steinman/ Dr. Olympio Faissol Pinto/ Dr. Hal Huggins
“Dentistry has avoided picking up on where does the dental decay come from. Can it be prevented? Yes, it can be.
There was a researcher back years ago/ 100 years ago, Dr. Weston A. Price, who traveled around the world looking for populations of people who didn't have dental decay and he found them. He found that there was a common denominator; they did not use what he termed, the food of commerce. They were kind of isolated like the Samoan Islands, Eskimos, people up in the mountains of Switzerland where they did not have sugar in their diet.
He got permission in some areas to dig up the graves and examine the teeth and in some of the areas he found at the time of death, which was usually between 70 & 80 years of age, these people had 1 cavity per 1000 teeth at the time of death & now it is very difficult to find that in kids at 2 years old.”
@DrLaraHeal@AbigailIovine They are for profit corporate employees ensuring for profit corporate medicine policy is being followed
Corporations vs we the people